If you are a geek and feel like killing some time this Friday afternoon, we can think of no better way to do it than by browsing Bruce Lowell’s massive Flickr archive. Using only LEGO, he recreates everything from video game characters to the Ghostbusters Ectomobile to entire In-N-Out Burger locations — and the results far surpass anything you may have constructed as a child. Click through to see some of our favorite Lowell sculptures, and then, seriously, check out some of his other work, because there’s tons of it, and it’s pretty much uniformly unbelievable.
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Today at Flavorpill, we met a woman who is truly terrified by kittens. We watched an all-too-brief preview of the Ab Fab holiday special. We got an interesting look at Tom McCarthy’s computer desktop as part of a new series from The Guardian. We wanted to get our hands on one of these grown-up advent calendars for design dorks. We were surprised to find out how dramatic living in an IKEA catalog can be. We imagined what it would have been like to have Andre the Giant as a head warmer. We wished that we’d known Melissa McCarthy back when she wore turtlenecks as harem pants in high school. We hoped that the new street skiing trend never really catches on. We were surprisingly sad that we’ll never get to wear Hunger Games-inspired nail polish — even if the colors did have awful names like “Baker’s Son” and “Coal-Hearted.” We listened to Scarlett Johansson duet with Dean Martin on “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” We couldn’t believe that the photos on this camera were still intact after spending a year floating around the ocean floor. We wanted to travel somewhere by train. And finally, we saw what Ghostbusters might have looked like as a Dr. Seuss book. Adorable!
Toronto-based designer Jesus Castañeda creates miniature (and kind of adorable) 8-bit heroes. Pixelated characters from comic books and film are set against a simplistic background and beckon you to imagine what it would be like to play a videogame featuring every last one of them together. Certain scenes show characters together — like Hulk and Deadpool. There’s even a pixilated version of Boba Fett’s demise. Click through for tiny, 8-bit takes on famous fantasy heroes. Read More »
This fall, there are plenty of great movies to look forward to. Surprisingly, the announcement that Ghostbusters would return to theaters in October means the sci-fi comedy classic just got bumped to the top of our list. Many of the movie’s fans were too young to see it in the theater initially, but even after all these years it feels like the movie could be a decent attraction during the Halloween season. There are few details, save for a brief posting on the movie’s Facebook page, which reads: “Alright, Ghostbusters fans. It’s time to get your cats and dogs together and prepare for mass hysteria: This October, for the first time in over 25 years, the original and unforgettable Ghostbusters makes its triumphant return to theaters!”
As Ain’t It Cool News points out, the impetus is surely so the studio can assess public interest in the Ghostbusters franchise as they continue trying to put together a Ghostbusters 3. The threequel has been in development for ages and seems to hinge largely on Bill Murray’s casual indifference to star in another adventure. Fans of the movie win because they get to see it, unaltered and unchanged — the word 3D was nowhere to be found — on the big screen. But if it does well, it means they lose because they’ll have to watch Egon, Spangler and Venkman pass the torch to Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd or whomever is the flavor of the moment. [via slashfilm]
As a general rule, we’re in favor of technology. But while we glanced through Angus Shamal’s roundup of the best behind the scenes photos from Ain’t It Cool News (which we spotted thanks to swissmiss), we couldn’t help but wonder if all of the CGI and motion capture of today has led to sets that are far less interesting than of those of the past. Something has been lost. Just think: There were actual birds loose on the set of The Birds! The real life version of the Nostromo was just as epic as what you see on-screen in Aliens. And don’t even get us started on all of the insanely-detailed, jaw-dropping modernist interiors from 2001. Yowza. We’d be happy to move right on in. Click through, and we think you’ll see what we mean.
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Well, boys and girls, it’s Scream 4 day, and while we’re (sort of) excited to catch up with Sidney, Dewey, and Gale Weathers, we’ve gotta ask: Was this really a sequel that anyone was pining for? After three earlier Screams, and an 11-year gap, were there that many unanswered questions and unresolved themes? (Sidebar: who on earth decided to re-hire screenwriter Ehren Kruger, the guy who screwed up Scream 3?)
We’ve complained before about the sequel and Hollywood’s crackhead-like reliance on franchise films for quick hits of guaranteed cash. But we’ll grant that some sequels do manage to continue an interesting story (Aliens, Terminator 2), bring back memorable characters (Magnum Force, Before Sunset), and even expand the power and scope of their predecessors (The Dark Knight, The Godfather Part II). But then there are the sequels that were clearly just a cash grab, continuations that did little more than beat a dead horse. Join us after the jump as we pick the ten most blatantly unnecessary movie sequels, and add your own in the comments.
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We landed on the moon way back in 1969, but our obsession with space didn’t end as soon as we shoved an American flag into a celestial body. No, our cultural curiosity about all things silver or jumpsuited or tentacled has worked its way into our hearts, closets, and aesthetic (probably in that order, too) and camped out there for almost half a decade. From Ziggy Stardust to Lady Gaga, the cosmos have driven what’s equal parts edgy and out there in the fashion world in a very consistent way. Check out our chronology of space fashion in pop culture after the jump.
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Do you ever wonder why more onscreen heroes don’t pull up in vans? What if the oversized automobile had been more ubiquitous in pop culture? Artist Brandon Ortwein gives us one answer with It Would Have Been Cooler as a Van, a poster series that re-envisions famous cinematic vehicles — from Pee-wee Herman’s bike to Doc’s DeLorean — as vans. We imagine Matt Foley, an early adopter of the van trend, would be proud.
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Bill Murray was wearing a proton pack when he accepted the “Best Horror Movie” Award on behalf of Zombieland at the 2010 Scream Awards over the weekend. While he has previously stated that a third Ghostbusters film is a myth, according to IMDb, it’s really happening, with Murray joining original cast members Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson. Perhaps this is a sign that Dr. Venkman has finally been won over? We can only hope. [via /Film]
Lee Crutchley is the UK-based graphic designer behind Quoteskine, a blog of Moleskine drawings inspired by a head full of quotes and lyrics. “I’m a big fan of taking two separate references and putting them together to make something new,” he explains. Click through to check out five of our favorites from his series of movie mash-up artwork; signed versions will be coming soon to his online store.
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